From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio: Define and use per-architecture "pfn shift" constants Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:07:38 -0600 Message-ID: <49134E8A.3030303@codemonkey.ws> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: rusty-8n+1lVoiYb80n/F98K4Iww@public.gmane.org, kvm-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, kvm-ppc-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, kvm-ia64-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Hollis Blanchard Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-ppc-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org Hollis Blanchard wrote: > # HG changeset patch > # User Hollis Blanchard > # Date 1225946980 21600 > # Node ID f58566dfe20e841604e1377ff41e9e0501c1cf18 > # Parent f776b102380286dd173a3b89f7dc976140812517 > virtio: Define and use per-architecture "pfn shift" constants > > Both sides of the virtio interface must agree about how big a pfn really is. > This is particularly an issue on architectures where the page size is > configurable (e.g. PowerPC, IA64) -- the interface must be independent of > PAGE_SHIFT. > > This patch should have no functional effect on x86 or ia64, but an ack from the IA64 guys > would be good because I'm not clear on their page size requirements. > > Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard > > This is missing a fix for virtio-balloon. Regards, Anthony Liguori -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm-ppc" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html